Third Season - Episode 068

TIN MAN

Stardate: 43779.3
Rating: 3 Humour: -- Action: -- Tension: -- Romance: -

Alternate Titles: German: "DER TELEPATH"

Written By: Bailey, Dennis Russe
Bischoff, David
Director: Scheerer, Robert
Music: Chattaway, Jay
Executive: Berman, Rick
Roddenberry, Gene
Co-Executive: Piller, Michael
Producer: Behr, Ira Steven
Line-Producer: Livingston, David
Co-Producer: Beimler, Hans
Manning, Richard

Cast

Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Patrick Stewart
Cmd. William T. Riker: Jonathan Frakes
Lt.Cmd. Geordi LaForge: LeVar Burton
Lt. Worf: Michael Dorn
Doctor Beverly Crusher: Cheryl Gates McFadden
Counselor Deanna Troi: Marina Sirtis
Lt.Cmd. Data: Brent Spiner
Wesley Crusher: Wil Wheaton
O'Brien: Colm Meaney
Captain Robert DeSoto: Michael Cavanaugh
Romulan Commander: Peter Vogt
Tam Elbrun: Harry Groener

Plot

The Hood unexpectedly joins the Enterprise and delivers their new orders and a passenger, Tam Elbrun. Tam is a Betazoid telepath and specializes in first-contacts but, he is also not well liked because he lacks tact. Tam explains that a recently discovered object in orbit around a dying star is suspected of being a living spaceship, dubbed "Tin Man" and Tam's mission is to contact it. However, the Romulans claim that space and are also sending ships to contact the newly discovered alien.

Goofs

  • The Enterprise and the Romulan ship are thrown far away by Tin Man. Wesley said that thev've been thrown "3.8 billion kilometers away". A couple seconds later, the sun goes nova, and they all saw it on the viewscreen. Unless the viewscreen is supposed to have some sort of sensor mechanism that relays events faster than the speed of light would bring the view in, they shouldn't have been able to view the star going nova for three and a half hours (assuming the US definition of "billion"):

Quotes

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